Cynopsis: Kids!
8/23/07
Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 23, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Icon Animation will showcase its new 2D animated sitcom Lucky Fred (52×12) at Cartoon Forum 2007 next month. Targeted to K6-12, Lucky Fred follows the adventures of 13-year-old Fred and RED, a Reality Enhancement Drone that falls from outer space and crashes through his bedroom ceiling one night. As luck would have it, RED winds up being helpful to Fred in his everyday life; for example, if he needs to pass a test, poof – RED calls up an intelligent pen, which can write by itself. That is all great … except RED doesn’t get it quite right most of the time, creating unexpected and yet amusing complications. Created by Myriam Ballesteros, a founding partner in Icon Animation with Sergi Reitg, and Txema Ocio, Lucky Fred is written by Ballesteros and Ocio, who are also the writing team on Lola&Virgnia.
Whoa there, hold your dinosaurs! If you have heard rumors that Steve Spielberg’s Jurassic Park 4 is heading into production, specifically casting, it is just that – rumors, per SpielbergFilms.com. The website reports that Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg’s co-producers on the Jurassic Park movies, tells them the rumors are “unfounded,” and that casting has not begun, “as the story and screenplay are still in development.” As for the much discussed return of Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, “the property is still not ready to move forward toward production and no casting is taking place.”
MORE KIDS STUFF
KEWLopolis on CBS, the new branded and kid-targeted Saturday morning programming block will launch the 2007-08 season on September 15 on CBS. The three-hour block, presented by CBS, DIC Entertainment and American Greetings Properties, in comprised of six E/I-compliant programs, which are exclusive to broadcast TV. The KEWLopolis on CBS 2007-08 season includes four new series, two of which will debut on November 3, and four returning shows:
From Saturday, September 15, 2007
7:00a Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot*
7:30a Strawberry Shortcake*
8:00a Cake
8:30a Horseland
9:00a Sabrina
9:30a Trollz
*New Series
From Saturday, November 3, 2007
7:00a Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot*
7:30a Strawberry Shortcake *
8:00a Cake
8:30a Horseland
9:00a Sushi Pack*
9:30a Dino Squad*
*New Series
The Backyardigans’ first hour-long, primetime TV movie, Super Secret Super Spy, will premiere on Nickelodeon, Monday, September 17, 2007, 7-8p. The movie features Cyndi Lauper performing the original theme song, The Lady in Pink. On Tuesday, September 18, Nickelodeon Home Entertainment will release a DVD entitled The Backyardigans: Super Secret Super Spy, which will feature the title TV movie and two other The Backyardigans stories, including the previously unseen episode. Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, bonus content on the DVD includes music videos, and a featurette with Lauper. The network will support the debut of the TV movie and its release on DVD, by offering movie clips across its preschool platforms: broadband service Nick Jr. Video will stream clips and music videos; clips will be available via wireless carriers; and Time Warner’s VOD will offer music videos from the movie and other spy-themed episodes of The Backyardigans.
MARKETING/LICENSING
Aardman Animations has tapped ROO Group, an online video solutions company, to re-launch its Wallace and Gromit website ( www.wallaceandgromit.com ) with increased video functionality. Wallace and Gromit content, including a series of short films and clips from the classic stories, will be available for free online for the first time on the new site. The new site features include a mini player on the homepage, which will link to a main portal player with full-screen viewing capabilities. The Wallace and Gromit site will be supported through video ads that can be purchased from ROO, and which will run across the mini player and main video portal.
Video game publisher Ubisoft has inked a deal with Cranium, Inc, to create a Cranium video game for the Nintendo Wii gaming system. Designed by Ubisoft’s development studios and targeted to families, Cranium Kabookii is slated to debut worldwide this December 2007. Using the Wii Remote and special Kabookii Decoder Glasses, which allows the wearer to see on-screen clues, teams will draw pictures, act out clues and crack codes to answer questions. Specific challenges include using the remote to hammer out a song on an on-screen xylophone or jog around the globe to test their knowledge on flags, landmarks and national anthems. The game will offer custom international questions, accounting for different cultures and sense of humor, for Canada, France, Spain, the UK and US.
The soundtrack to Disney’s High School Musical 2 (HSM2), on Walt Disney Records, debuts at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 album chart, based on sales of 615,000 copies, the second highest one-week total for an album this year. In its first week, it also certified gold in Ireland, the UK, Canada, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia. HSM2 premiered on Disney Channel last Friday, August 17, 2007. Additionally, Disney has two other albums on the Billboard chart for the week ending September 1, 2007: Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (Walt Disney Records/Hollywood Records) is at number two on the chart, while Jonas Brothers (Hollywood Records) self-titled album is at number 8.
STONE SOUP
Bestseller Children’s Fiction Books (top 10) Week of August 13, 2007: Title; Author (Publisher)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; J.K. Rowling (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books)
Eclipse; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
Twilight; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
New Moon; Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown/Tingley)
Princess Academy; Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
The Lightning Thief; Rick Riordan (Hyperion/Miramax)
The Eldest; Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
The Alchemyst; Michael Scott (Delacorte)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Jeff Kinney (Abrams/Amulet)
Eragon; Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
Compiled from data received from independent and chain bookstores.
Source: Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Children’s Picture Books (top 10), Week of August 13, 2007: Title; Author (Publisher)
Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy; Jane O’Connor (HarperCollins)
Fancy Nancy; Jane O’Connor (HarperCollins)
The Wandmaker’s Guidebook; Ed Masessa (Scholastic/Tangerine)
The Wizard; Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow)
Dog; Matthew Van Fleet and Brian Stanton (S&S/Wiseman)
Bad Dog, Marley!; John Grogan (HarperCollins)
Nini Here and There; Anita Lobel (Greenwillow)
Flotsam; David Wiesner (Clarion)
Pirates Don’t Change Diapers; Melinda Long (Harcourt)
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs; Robert Sabuda (Candlewick Press)
Compiled from data received from independent and chain bookstores.
Source: Publishers Weekly
In addition to the Children’s Fiction Books list, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books also appears on several other Publisher’s Weekly most recent bests book lists: rank title (publisher)
Books Most Borrowed in US Libraries: Fiction, for the week August 15, 2007
5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Bestselling Audio Fiction, for the week of July 30, 2007
1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (unabridged CD) (Random House Audio/Listening Library)
4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (unabr. CD) (Random House Audio)
6 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (unabr. CD) (Random House Audio/Listening Library)
8 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (unabr. CD) (Random House/Audio Listening Library)
Bestselling Children’s Series and Tie-ins, for the week of July 30, 2007
1 Harry Potter (Scholastic/Levine)
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Beth Gardiner has been promoted to VP/Development and Programming Playhouse Disney, Disney Channel. The lovely and charming Gardiner will continue to head development and production of original series for the preschool programming block. Gardiner, who had been Executive Director/Development and Programming, continues reporting to Nancy Kanter, SVP/Original Programming, Disney Channel. Prior to joining Disney Channel in 2002, Gardiner toiled as a Production Executive for Nickelodeon.
Betts FitzGerald is appointed VP/Licensing and Marketing, 4Kids Entertainment. FitzGerald will head licensing sales for a range of 4Kids properties including Jim Henson Designs, Pajanimals, Cabbage Patch Kids, and Xbox 360. She will also oversee marketing efforts for Monster Jam. A 30-year industry veteran, FitzGerald most recently served as VP/Outbound licensing, American Greetings in NY. Previously, she held senior management posts in licensing and branding at The Jim Henson Company and Lisa Marks & Associates.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What was the name of the animated mascot in the Hawaiian Punch ads whose famous catch phrase was “”How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?” PUNCHY Kudos to: Ron Yurman-Short Hills Media Group/Short Hills, NJ; Joe Kromer-Sunny Delight Beverages Co./Cincinnati; Kristen Tuinstra-Zonderkidz/Grand Rapids, MI; EJ Offurum-Triple Threat Television/NY; Michael Hawkins-PromoDoctors/Irving, TX ; Rosemary Cunningham-MMT/Chicago; Richard Quan-Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Alex Moreno-Cine Creative Media/Burbank; Matthew C. Bergeron-Disney ABC Cable Networks Group/Burbank; Pat Brady-Cunningham*Escott*Slevin*Doherty/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: What was Casper the friendly ghost’s horse’s name? ( Click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)
Later — Gwen
Gwen Billings for Cynopsis: Kids!
08.23.07
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